u/Sensitive_Okra2104

It is finished
▲ 33 r/ICARUS

It is finished

My ren farm.

240 hydroponic crop plots. Yes I know its stupid. It took me mining out half of olympus to build this.

For context: here is the final raw material list

Raw materials

Resource Amount
Iron ore 45,744
Coal ore 6,024
Platinum ore 4,800
Silica ore 4,800
Copper ore 16,320
Gold ore 4,800
Bones 38,400
Wood 14,400
Oxite 14,400
Dirt 4,800

This doesn't include all the resources it took to build the infrastructure to create this.

This farm generates about 8000 delicacies per harvest every 10 ish minutes, so roughly 80 ren per minute

u/Sensitive_Okra2104 — 5 hours ago
▲ 14 r/ICARUS

Idea for new t3-t5 building technology - Weatherproof coating

When playing on Hard mode in later maps like Prometheus and Elysium, any long term base needs to made of Concrete or Limestone, or else you have to repair the external pieces after every expedition, since most operations trigger high tier storms. I had one sitting with 4 t6 storms in 3 hours.

Personally, I don't like the look of concrete compared to, say, scoria brick or even beeswax building materials, but I also don't want to repair them every time I return to base.

The solution? Weatherproof coating.

This could come in two tiers: weatherproof coating and hardend weatherproof coating.

Weatherproof coating: crafted at the machining bench for some combination of epoxy, organic resin, and paint, this item can be attached to any placeable building piece to increase its storm resistance by one tier permanently, persistent after the piece is picked up. One piece of coating covers one building piece.

Hardened weatherproof coating: Crafted at the chemistry station with some combination of polymers, compounds, and epoxy, this acts just like the above coating except it gives 2 tiers of resistance.

Now your scoria brick building can survive t7 storms!

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u/Sensitive_Okra2104 — 2 days ago